Employees Only specializes in the classics, so consider starting the evening here with a Manhattan or a Hemingway Daiquiri.
The menu at this influential bar includes punches, juleps, drinks made with Spanish spirits, and plenty of whiskey-based cocktails.
This secret cocktail lounge is hidden behind a door near the entrance of Japanese restaurant Village Yokocho. If coming for the first time, make sure to sample one of the rum-based drinks.
There's no menu here - so get comfortable with the pro bar staff and bare your soul. Ross is the man behind a host of modern classics, like the Penicillin.
Drinks at Pegu Club are complex and precisely made, but easy to enjoy. Start the evening here with the Gin-Gin Mule, which includes homemade ginger beer.
See the "Garden to the Glass" menu section for inventive drinks like the Victory Garden, made with gin, tomato water, strawberry, and sherry.
First-timers should try the Beton's Old Fashioned which is made with Four Roses Yellow Bourbon that's infused with fat from Benton's Smoky Mountain Hams, plus bitters, maple syrup, and an orange twist
It looks like a spot where Jack Sparrow would hang out if he ditched the pirate stuff and got a job in finance. There’s a big wraparound patio outside with views of the Empire State Building
It’s a little coffee shop in Nomad, and at night, they stop serving coffee and open a hidden bar in back where you can drink a very good cocktail.
Has a post-Cuba during prohibition theme. A lot of the hits are under punches, with options like the Nacional — a blend of Rum, French Bitters, apricot, banana, pineapple, lime, and yuzu.
Try the Garden Paloma, which is made with celery bitters, grapefruit, soda, and tequila. You don't always need reservations, but they are encouraged.
Each drink is based on an individual spice. De Soto plays with seemingly incompatible ingredients in unique ways to create concoctions like red cabbage with yerba mate, or Aperol with beet juice
The sake-and-gin Sakura Martini, garnished with its namesake cherry blossom, or the Improved Shochu Cocktail, delivered in a masu, or sake "overflow" box, are choice spirit-forward picks.
